Intervention Trial Design
Students learn through pre-recorded lectures. There are graded student presentations of final course project to interpret and design clinical and population-level field trials in addition to a written midterm. Topics: formulation of a testable trial hypothesis; identification of appropriate study populations; blinding (including indices for assessment); randomization (including traditional and adaptive); sample size estimation; recruitment strategies; data collection systems; quality control and human subjects responsibilities; adverse effects monitoring; improving participant adherence; use of surrogate outcomes; preparation of a meta-analysis summarizing a group of trials.
Topics
- At the completion of the course, students will be able to: 1) critique published Intervention Trials with respect to design and potential sources of bias: : 2) understand and apply basic principles to determine an appropriate sample size for a Trial; 3) identify whether appropriate steps have been taken to provide transparency in a published Trial; 4) be able to design a basic Intervention Trial in the student’s area of interest; 5) prepare a summary meta-analysis for a group of published Trials published on one topic of interest to the student.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
{'preRequisiteCourse': '1176901', 'concurrentPrerequisit': False}
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027